Follow the rabbit-proof fence

1996136 pages
Book based on the true account of three young Aboriginal girls who, under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native Settlement at Moore River, North of Perth; Molly, the eldest of the three, led… more
Book based on the true account of three young Aboriginal girls who, under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native Settlement at Moore River, North of Perth; Molly, the eldest of the three, led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home, barefoot - without provisions or maps, escaping from the settlement's repressive conditions and brutal treatment; they set out to find the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it passed near their home in the north; tracked by Native Police and search planes, they hid in terror, desperate to return to the world they knew.
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